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The Indiana Court of Appeals on Thursday declined Madison County’s request that it correct or vacate an arbitrator’s
award in favor of two county highway department employees. The appeals court concluded the county circumvented the collective
bargaining agreement when it discharged the two employees.

A new Indiana law that bans many sex offenders from venturing onto school property doesn't prevent most from worshipping
at churches that house schools on their grounds, attorneys in a recently dismissed lawsuit say.

Those interested in becoming the 109th Indiana Supreme Court justice tentatively have until Jan. 25 to apply. Applications
for the vacancy to be created by Justice Brent Dickson’s retirement are now available online.

A former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the death of an unarmed black motorist is suing a police association,
saying the group failed to provide the legal representation he paid for under an insurance plan.

Criminals hoodwinked banks, credit-card networks and a payment-security firm while moving hundreds of millions of dollars,
according to the U.S. government. It won’t be easy to stop it from happening again.

An Indiana law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against one of the world’s largest seed and agrochemical companies
in an effort to allow more time for individual farmers to sue the company after corn prices plummeted last year.

An ex-husband who sought “all-or-nothing” relief when he asked the court to terminate his ex-wife’s incapacity
support instead of reducing it after she remarried lost his appeal before the Indiana Supreme Court.

Congress sent President Barack Obama a $607 billion defense policy bill Tuesday that bans moving Guantanamo Bay detainees
to the United States — something Obama has been trying to do since he was sworn in as president.

A man’s 2014 conviction of operating a vehicle while impaired in New York cannot serve as the basis to bring enhanced
drunken-driving charges against him because the New York statute is not substantially similar to the elements of a crime described
in Indiana Code, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the award of custody of a young girl to her great aunt, finding the woman did not overcome
the presumption in favor of placement with the girl’s biological mother.

Ernst & Young LLP erred by taking Bernie Madoff at his word when it signed off on audits of a fund that helped feed the
biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. The firm then stumbled by trusting the con man’s now-disgraced ex- accountant,
a jury in the first trial of its kind was told.